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The barrister for a Kilkenny man, charged with murdering his nephew’s friend, has suggested that what happened was an accident and a tragic set of circumstances that could never be legislated for.

The barrister for a man charged with murdering another man in his home has suggested that his client was trying to wrestle the knife from his self-harming nephew when it entered the deceased man’s chest.

A Waterford murder trial has heard that emergency services found a blood-soaked man on the ground outside the accused man’s house, which was also covered in blood and littered with alcohol cans.

A 71-year-old Englishman set fire to a neighbour’s van, endangering the life of a family with a newborn baby, because he believed he was being spied on by MI5.

The recent good weather has prompted lifeguard cover to be extended at beaches in Clare both today and tomorrow.

A Clare man who was taken to University Hospital Limerick after a fall would not have died had he been properly treated and kept in, a court heard.

A man charged in connection with a violent carjacking, in which he allegedly struck a woman across the head with a crutch, lashed out in court yesterday and told gardaí and prison officers, “I’ll kill the whole lot of ye bastards.”

A man who has been charged in connection with a violent carjacking last Sunday, in which a woman was struck on the head before she was driven away by her attacker, told gardaí after his arrest: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it", a court has heard.

A man has been arrested by gardaí, who are investigating a violent carjacking in Limerick city.

“This is Ireland.” These were the words a shocked Ann Davaris from New Jersey heard a stranger saying after she called her missing son Steve on his mobile number 11 years ago.

Mystery still surrounds the disappearance 11 years ago of a US backpacker who was only yesterday officially pronounced dead at an inquest in Ennis, Co Clare.

Nothing’s overlooked at Gorse Lodge, bar a picturesque creek by the sublime Kinsale area’s Sandycove Island, finds Tommy Barker.    

A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was pulled from the sea by a group of kayakers in Co Clare this morning.

A fourth major supermarket, Aldi, has been given the go-ahead near Youghal’s town centre.

Beaches and marinas across the country are bathing in the warm waters of European approval — 86 of them have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag status.

A 34-year-old Kilkenny man has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering a 25-year-old man with a single stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

The nephew of a murder accused said his uncle stabbed the deceased in the chest with a a foot-long butcher knife in a statement read to the jury yesterday.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a man with a stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

A woman has told her former partner’s murder trial that when she visited him in prison he told her he had stabbed the deceased.

Cork County Council has approved planning permission for a major retail development to be built at the dilapidated former Seafield Textiles building in Youghal, Co Cork.

Planning permission is being sought to build supermarkets on two former textile factories in an east Cork town.

Two young men lost their lives in separate accidents over the Easter weekend.

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a 25-year-old who was stabbed to death at an apartment late on Thursday night.

A 33-year-old man has appeared at a special sitting of Waterford District Court charged with the murder of a man who was found fatally stabbed at a Tramore apartment late on Thursday night.

Families in Co Clare were evacuated from their seaside homes as windows and patio doors were blown in by 30m high waves which threw quarter-ton wall cappings 50m across a car park.

An East Cork town council intends amending its Town Development Plan to facilitate a planning application for a major retail development.

A Polish man knocked down by a car on St Patrick’s Day is fighting for his life in a Cork hospital.

Environmental campaigners have targeted Shell petrol stations over the company’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.

1. Leahy’s Open Farm, Dungourney, Co Cork. Farm and exotic animals, go-karting, boat rides & other activities, small heritage museum. Open: July/August: Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm; Sun, 1pm-6pm. Price: €8 per person, no charge for under twos. Tel: 021-4668461/086-8560461. www.leahysopenfarm.ie. Age: all ages but best for 2-12.

Further deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease cannot be ruled out, doctors in Scotland warned, as people from further afield fell ill.

Donal Hickey says the tide is washing up rare fish

JOHN and Diana McWilliams may have downsized from sail-making to wind socks, but the story doesn't end there.

The young man who died in a road accident in Co Clare last night has been named.

COUNCIL officials in Cork are concerned that the public isn’t aware of the exceptional value that their affordable housing schemes represent.

THE mayor says they’re an “absolute bargain” and the county council can’t understand why house-hunters aren’t snapping them up, but 20 homes on the outskirts of Youghal are still empty.

A FORMER convent and school building overlooking Kinsale town in Cork may be in line for conversion to over 200 new houses and apartments.